Assist or Inakop
a) rays and glare, which are made with gold or silver and which are component illustration of clothes, hair, etc. It symbolizes the presence of Divine light.

b) Adhesive composition for the gluing gold, with the form of a thick sticky mass of dark brown color, which is made by slops of beer and garlic garlic by heating in an oven to the desired state. When used, it is diluted with water so, that it was possible to hold a brush very thin lines. Gold keeps very well and does not lose its luster on the assiste.

Fryazhskoe” iconpainting, fryaz (from old Russian language - "fryazhsky" is Italian, "fryazi" – are the Italians, from the Greek. φραγκος - Franc) - the name of the icon painting style , different by external credibility in the transfer of the material world. Fryazhskaya manner of icon painting appears in Russia in the second half of the XVII century under the influence of the Western art.

(knows as „Lefkas“) - (Greek λευκος - bright, shiny, white) - it the name of the priming in icon-painting, which is a chalky powder, and which is mixed with the animal or fish glue. It is put on several layers of specially prepared board. Once dry, it is grinded.

According to the records of the contemporary Patriarch Hermogenes (at the time the priest of the Gostinodvorskaya church of Kazan - Yermolay), after the fire in Kazan in 1579, which has destroyed part of the city, the Mother of God appeared in the dream of a nine-year old Matrona, and ordered to dig out her icon from the ashes.The icon was indeed found in the specified location at a depth of one meter.The appearance day of the Kazan Icon - July 8, according to the Julian calendar - in our days the general church festival in the Russian Church. At the place where was the appearance of the icon, was built nunnery of the Mother of God, and the first nun became the Matron, who has adopted the name - Mavra. Iconographic the icon of Mother of God of Kazan is usually referred to an abbreviated version of the Hodegetria. The Mother of God is depicted in the typical garb, with a slight inclination of the head of the Child. The infant Christ is presented strictly full-face, the figure is limited to the waist,only the right hand with the blessing gesture is visible. The Mother of God of Kazan, of our research, - one of the most revered and most reproducible icon of all icons in Russia.